RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated ...

At least 57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to ...

It was the latest eruption of gruesome violence to hit the country's underfunded and overcrowded prison system Eight inmates were killed and burned Monday in a fresh prison riot in Brazil, police said ...

ALTAMIRA, Brazil (Reuters) - Odijane Mota still cannot make sense of her son Efraim's gruesome death in a Brazilian jail. The 22 year old was one of dozens of inmates killed during prison riots in the ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The killing of 56 inmates by fellow prisoners in Brazil's deadliest jail uprising in decades was a "butchery foretold" by escalating turf wars between drug gangs that threatens ...